Free Cartoon Fridays (Aug 14): “Mesopotamian Inquirer”
Every Friday for the next nine weeks will be Free Cartoon Friday! Check back each week for a free cartoon I failed to sell to Christian pastors' magazines in 2005! Click image for full size, or go to the Cartoons page. What I would really like is a real cartoonist who's willing to put my ideas in visual form and sell them. If you're that man or woman, send me an e-mail!
Bruce Ware Applies the Trinity
I just finished Bruce Ware's Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: Relationship, Roles, and Relevance. It's quite clear what century the book was written in because Ware focuses a lot of attention—as well he should—on what the Trinity means for gender roles. But I found it warm-hearted, clearly written, and helpfully concise. At the end of his book, Ware offers ten applications from the doctrine of the Trinity: God intends that his very nature—yes, his triune and eternal nature—be expressed in our...
Greek and the Layperson
I wish for a day when no one but Greek students and avid C. S. Lewis fans knows the Greek words for love. Knowing them never seems to be much help to people in interpreting Scripture; frequently, instead, that knowledge is an impediment.
Farmteam Community Church
American Idol's amazing popularity makes it a very interesting subject for cultural criticism. This year's win of a former worship leader over an androgynous rocker raised the following question on GetReligion, an insightful blog: Has Sunday morning in megachurch America already turned into the American Idol minor leagues? Now I add my own questions: is the American church so worldly that such a question even makes sense? Why would worship leaders in Christian churches be potential powerhouses...
Shelby Steele: Affirmative Action Doesn’t Solve the Real Problem
Challenging insight on race from public intellectual Shelby Steele in the Washington Post: Affirmative action has always been more about the restoration of legitimacy to American institutions than the uplift of blacks and other minorities. For 30 years after its inception, no one even bothered to measure its effectiveness in minority progress.... Affirmative action has been quite effective in its actual, if unacknowledged, purpose. It has restored moral authority and legitimacy to American...